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David Schonauer Monday April 17, 2023
Edgar Martins of Portugal is the winner of the Photographer of the Year title in the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards for a project honoring Anton Hammerl, a friend and photojournalist who was
abducted and killed on April 5 2011, during the Libyan Civil War. Martins's series was selected from the 10 category winners of the contest's Professional competition. His images, and those of … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday April 14, 2023
Carl Fischer, the photographer who shot some of Esquire magazine’s most famous and provocative covers of the 1960s and early ’70s—including images of Muhammad Ali pierced by arrows and Andy Warhol falling into a giant can of tomato soup—died on April 7 at his home in Manhattan, notes The New York Times. He was 98. Fischer worked as an art director in advertising and then founded his own photography studio when, in 1963, Harold Hayes, Esquire’s editor, began hiring him to shoot covers. He would ultimately shoot 60 of them for the magazine, usually working with fames art director George Lois.
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Ukrainian Museum Friday April 14, 2023
“I know Ukraine will win. And I know we will rebuild. But it will just be different from now on. So I’m very happy that I documented this particular moment in time in Ukraine.” So says photographer Yelena Yemchuk, whose book Odesa captures what AnOther calls the “beauty and resilience” of pre-war Ukraine. Parts of the work have been on view at the Ukrainian Museum in New York, alongside Yemchuk’s short film, Malanka. Born in Kiev, Yemchuk immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven.
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Canon Rumors Friday April 14, 2023
Canon has announced the development of the MS-500—the world's first ultra-high-sensitivity interchangeable-lens camera equipped with a 1-inch Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor, reports Canon Rumors. The 3.2-megapixel sensor promises impeccable low-light performance, while the MS-500 works with telephoto broadcast lenses, enabling long-distance monitoring, adds PetaPixel. The camera is expected to be ideal for such applications as high-precision monitoring of key infrastructure facilities to quickly identify targets under adverse conditions, including darkness in which human eyes cannot see.
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